Why are medical aesthetics and cosmetic surgery on the rise? With healthy and mindful living trends, people want youthful looks to match their longer lifespans
- Diagnosed with Graves’ disease at age nine, Dr Lisa Chan was inspired to become a doctor and founded Everkeen Medical Centre in Hong Kong
- She advises skincare, healthy living and reducing stress for anti-ageing effects
Dr Lisa Chan, a general practitioner with a focus on aesthetic medicine and aesthetic gynaecology, was attracted to the arts from a young age. “My mother was a huge influence,” says Chan, who is also the founder of the Everkeen Medical Centre.
“She was the one who took me to musicals and ballet performances, painting and art classes, and taught me to appreciate the beauty around me. My father, an electronic engineer, passed on his approach of solving problems with a logical and detail-oriented mind.”
Diagnosed with Graves’ disease at the age of nine, Chan ended up choosing a career in medicine after being inspired by her paediatrician.
“Medical aesthetics allowed me to combine the greatest influences in my life, where I can not only visualise how small changes will affect the overall appearance, but can also bring out my patients’ natural beauty,” she says.
Medical aesthetics (such as hair removal, treatment of pigmentation, wrinkle reduction, facial rejuvenation and contouring, mole removal and vaginal rejuvenation) are minimally invasive procedures that rarely require anaesthesia.
On the other hand, cosmetic surgery is a type of elective plastic surgery that permanently alters facial or body parts for aesthetic purposes, and includes procedures like rhinoplasty with implants. Chan believes it is human nature to chase after the fountain of youth.
Youth has always been a universal human longing